Lindahl, Fischer and Samuelsson are absent from the South African group

Lindahl and Fischer were released, giving Gerhardsson the opportunity to test other players at their posts.

Samuelsson, meanwhile, is injured. It's the same footing that she has already operated on. According to Arsenal, the injury occurred in the international match against England two weeks ago. However, she should have known the damage the next day.

Peter Gerhardsson and his assistant Magnus Wikman have named 24 players in South Africa, which includes, in addition to the national team, an unofficial international match played five days ago.

In this case, the game time is 3 x 30 minutes, which means everyone in the team will have play time.

The match of South Africa marks the start of the World Cup final next summer in France After that, three matches of the Algarve Cup in Portugal are waiting for the end of February-March , followed by a national match against Germany on April 6 in Solna.

"I see that between 30 and 35 players currently have the opportunity to be part of the World Cup team," Gerhardsson said.

He also stressed that he chose to name the team in South Africa right now to give the best possible chances of preparation. The reason is that 16 of the withdrawn people belong to Damallsvenskan who have a break.

"I've also talked to Hedvig Lindahl and Nilla Fischer before deciding to let them stay in their club.The two are available before the World Cup.